If You've Put Off Buying a 4K TV
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NickleDimer
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Living in a NYC apartment, I have no need for a 100" TV so 4K makes no sense. Frankly, I'm not sure anyone needs a TV that is 8 feet wide.
4k is the next resolution standard from 1080. Current TV programming has barely gotten up to full 1080 resolution, some are still at 720, there is limited content, and many believe we'll skip over 4k and go to 8k as the next standard where all content will end up at.
I wouldn't tell someone not to buy one, like 3D a few years back, but its really just a nice to have right now. It'll make standard HD look crisper but without more content thats about all your going to get.
The UK has been offering a promotion program to get people to buy 4k tvs as several of their channels have invested in providing 4k content. I don't see this happening in the US right now.
I wouldn't tell someone not to buy one, like 3D a few years back, but its really just a nice to have right now. It'll make standard HD look crisper but without more content thats about all your going to get.
The UK has been offering a promotion program to get people to buy 4k tvs as several of their channels have invested in providing 4k content. I don't see this happening in the US right now.
Makes so much sense since just about nothing is broadcast in that resolution
The number of pixels is no as longer important as what the pixels can do. How many colors can they show, how bright/dark can they be? Because of that, I'm surprised TJC hasn't moved on to HDR. Netflix announced that they will start shooting their original programming with cameras that can be mastered in HDR. It's all the pixels of 4k but with more vivid color and contrast. The wired article below says that the images are so bright that looking at an on-screen image of the sun would make you squint. Imagine how good the Oklahoma game would have looked in HDR!
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/what-is-hdr-tv/
http://bgr.com/2016/02/02/netflix-4k-hdr-tv/
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/what-is-hdr-tv/
http://bgr.com/2016/02/02/netflix-4k-hdr-tv/
I can just picture tjc sitting there with his duplex/trailer harmony remote, nova radio broadcast team blaring over his Amazon echo, watching FS1 on his 100" 4K UHD 3D TV wearing his "passive" 3D glasses, penning a VUSports post on his iPad calling college kids quitters.
NickleDimer
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Just like nobody can picture you posting anything that isn't just idiotic nasty comments.
All of Amazon's original series are available in 4K as I believe are Netflix and Hulu Plus.
NickleDimer
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Marginally noticeable definition improvements from an economy electronics company for only $1000? Where do I sign up?
For the sake of being fair & balanced...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/time-to-buy-4k-tvs,news-17388.html
Tomsguide?? Do you have a website too?
We have a 4k TV, friend works at Samsung and gave us the company discount on it. Netflix is amazing but everything else just looks HD.
Ninotchka: Radio. What's radio?
Leon: Radio is a little box that you buy on the installment plan and before you tune it in, they tell you there's a new model out.
That was from 1939. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Leon: Radio is a little box that you buy on the installment plan and before you tune it in, they tell you there's a new model out.
That was from 1939. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Regardless of resolution - and I know little about tech - isn't 1000 bucks for a 100 inch tv really cheap? I bought a 55" in 2008 and I don't remember what I paid but it was a hell of a lot more than that... I thought 100" tvs were all in the 4k plus territory.
My Vizio tv just stopped recognizing the remote. The sensor's toast. Apparently it's common. Not going with that shit brand ever again
Make sure you have your TV set to "upscale" non-4K programming to 4K, novabubba.